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  Speaker 1: On January 2nd, 1949, Mutual Broadcasting System aired a late-run
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  Speaker 1: blue-coal broadcast of The Shadow, Death, and the Crown of Odalf,
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  Speaker 1: Street and Smith script number 356. Brett Morrison stars as
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  Speaker 1: Lamont Cranston with Grace Matthews as Margot Lane in a
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  Speaker 1: Peter Barry script. Their investigation begins after the murder of
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  Speaker 1: a historian and leads to a jeweled crown associated with
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  Speaker 1: an 8th century Viking king. The artifact's supposed curse and
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  Speaker 1: report suggesting its long-dead owner has returned unsettle those drawn
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  Speaker 1: toward it. For Cranston and Lane, the case brings ancient
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  Speaker 1: legend into a contemporary murder investigation. We now take you
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  Speaker 1: back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: Knows.
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  Speaker 4: Once again, we bring you the thrilling adventures of The Shadow,
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  Speaker 4: the hard and relentless fight of one man against the
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  Speaker 4: forces of evil. These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcibly
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  Speaker 4: to old and young alike that crime does not pay.
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  Speaker 4: The Shadow, who aids the forces of law and order,
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  Speaker 4: is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 4: Years ago in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and
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  Speaker 4: mysterious secret, the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so
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  Speaker 4: they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
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  Speaker 4: Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom
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  Speaker 4: the voice of the invisible shadow belongs.
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  Speaker 2: Today's drama, Death and the Crown of Odell.
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  Speaker 3: Death and the Crown of Odell.
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  Speaker 4: On a morning of glittering ice and blue water, 1,200
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  Speaker 4: years ago, the followers of Odalf the Avenger were assembled
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  Speaker 4: on the shore before a long, proud warship to witness
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  Speaker 4: the funeral of their king.
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  Speaker 2: The body of the old.
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  Speaker 4: Viking chieftain lay in state on deck as the spokesman
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  Speaker 4: raised the jeweled crown of kingly power and placed it
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  Speaker 4: upon the head of Odalf.
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  Speaker 2: Then raised the ship's anchor... and set the Viking monarch afloat.
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  Speaker 4: upon the wide, uncharted seas. Perhaps Phoenician pirates sighted the
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  Speaker 4: Viking ship... as it drifted across the Aegean... or a
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  Speaker 4: Byzantine galley boarded it in the open Atlantic.
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  Speaker 2: At all events... The.
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  Speaker 4: Crown of Odell turned up down the centuries on the
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  Speaker 4: markets of Paris and Amsterdam and Brussels. And men paid
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  Speaker 4: high price for it in blood and death. Until recently
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  Speaker 4: on a threatening night.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Fairchild and Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Roger of the investment house of Roger Fairchild appeared for
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  Speaker 4: an appointment at the remote country home of Mark Drumgold,
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  Speaker 4: Professor Emeritus and internationally known expert on Viking history. The beautiful,
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  Speaker 4: dark woman who accompanied them was Roger's foreign-born wife, Ilsa.
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  Speaker 5: It was good of you to see us, Professor.
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  Speaker 6: I am sorry I have postponed the meeting as I have, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Roger, gentlemen, but I need a.
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  Speaker 6: Retired life and I find it difficult to cope with
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  Speaker 6: even the.
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  Speaker 4: Best of company. Yes, we quite understand, sir. But I
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  Speaker 4: think you'll find our business very intriguing. You see, Professor,
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  Speaker 4: our firm has come into possession of the Crown of Odell.
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  Speaker 4: The crown of Odal.
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  Speaker 2: You have heard of it, of course. Why, yes, Mr. Roger.
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  Speaker 2: The crown of a 7th century Norse king, I believe. Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: It was actually my idea to come here, Professor.
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  Speaker 2: I persuaded my husband and Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Fairchild that if you would give us a documented statement
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  Speaker 5: of the authenticity of the thing, it would allow us
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  Speaker 5: to ask a higher price when the time.
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  Speaker 2: Came to send. Of course. When may I see the crown?
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  Speaker 2: At once, sir. I've brought it along. It's here in
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  Speaker 2: this case. There. The crown of Odile.
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  Speaker 6: But how could you have been so foolish as to
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  Speaker 6: carry this priceless treasure around in the night without protection?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we have protection, Professor Drumgold. Protection of secrecy.
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  Speaker 4: No one in the world has the slightest idea of
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  Speaker 4: the thing's whereabouts or its worth, and therefore it will
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  Speaker 4: be perfectly safe to leave it with you for a
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  Speaker 4: few days, as long as you may need it.
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  Speaker 2: You will undertake the job of a cradle, Professor Brungold? Indeed, Mrs. Roger,
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  Speaker 2: I am most intrigued. Oh, excellent. Come along now, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: and let the professor work. Yes, good idea. I will
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  Speaker 2: phone tomorrow. Very good, sir. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And here is a barley leaf that looks like early
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  Speaker 2: Etruscan influence. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: A pronged gem setting suggests Byzantine workmanship.
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  Speaker 2: Who is that? Who is it, please?
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Fairchild? Roger? Hiya, Professor. Who are you, gentlemen? Us reporters, Pop.
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  Speaker 2: Our paper told us you got an interesting gadget here.
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  Speaker 2: Some kind of crown worth a very handsome piece of change.
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  Speaker 2: Who told you this? A paper, Pop. Just like the
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  Speaker 2: man said. Now, how about giving us a look, huh? Why, uh,
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  Speaker 2: of course. Here it is. On the table. Get a
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  Speaker 2: load of that. The hook of fruitcake, huh? Book could
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  Speaker 2: be worth half a million clams. Very nice. And very
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  Speaker 2: nice of the professor to show it to us. Don't
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  Speaker 2: mention it, gentlemen. And now I have something even more
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  Speaker 2: startling to show you. What? This. wives. What's with the gun, Professor?
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  Speaker 2: Who are you? My name's Hopper. And mine's Max. We're reporters.
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  Speaker 2: You are thieves, gentlemen, not reporters.
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  Speaker 6: Thieves with the express intent of stealing this crown. And
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  Speaker 6: I will give you just one minute to tell me
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  Speaker 6: how you knew it was here.
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  Speaker 2: In one minute, I.
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  Speaker 6: Will avail myself of the privilege of self-defense.
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  Speaker 2: And pull the trigger. Okay, okay. We got a phone call.
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  Speaker 4: A call from some guy who told us the Crown
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  Speaker 4: would be here before midnight.
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  Speaker 2: Impossible. No one knew. This guy knew on the level.
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  Speaker 2: Said the Crown used to belong to him. Named something
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  Speaker 2: like Rodolphe or Olaf or... Rodolphe? Olaf?
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  Speaker 7: You.
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  Speaker 2: You don't mean... Rodolphe? Yeah, yeah. That's it. I'm the button, Professor. Rodolphe.
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  Speaker 2: You are either mad or a liar, Mr. Hoffman.
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  Speaker 4: None of your.
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  Speaker 6: The informer you mention has been dead for 1,200 years.
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  Speaker 6: The story is fantastic, my man. Send where you are, please.
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  Speaker 6: I'm calling the police.
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  Speaker 2: There's a chance when he picks up that receiver, we
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  Speaker 2: rush him. Operator?
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  Speaker 4: Operator?
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  Speaker 2: Hello, operator, I want.
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  Speaker 7: One down for us. Get that gun off me.
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  Speaker 2: Give it here. Give it here.
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  Speaker 4: Relax, wait.
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  Speaker 2: You shouldn't have done that, Max. Murder ain't my line.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want, chucklehead? This old geezer could identify
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  Speaker 2: you in a police lineup? Get that crown. Let's blow.
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  Speaker 7: All right, here's the hotel room. Now keep the dingus
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  Speaker 7: under your coat until we're inside.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Max. All I got to say is I wish
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  Speaker 2: you hadn't... Are you the messieurs Max and Hoffman? Hey,
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  Speaker 2: who the... What are you doing in here? That boy
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  Speaker 2: was kind enough to let me in. Yeah, he's a
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  Speaker 2: very kindly punk. Now, what do you want? I'm sorry
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  Speaker 2: to intrude, but the crown.
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  Speaker 8: Of Odell, a rare 7th century relic, was stolen half
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  Speaker 8: an hour ago from the home of Professor Mark Drumgold.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: How do you know that?
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  Speaker 8: Well, you see, my name is Roger of Fairchild and Roger,
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  Speaker 8: and I own the crown in partnership with my wife
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  Speaker 8: and Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Fairchild.
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  Speaker 9: So, so.
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  Speaker 2: I received a somewhat mysterious phone call a few moments ago.
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  Speaker 2: The gentleman did not give me... What, a deep voice? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: strange voice, weird, far away. He's the same tomato that
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  Speaker 2: called us. What goes on there? Shut up. What did
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  Speaker 2: he say to you? Well, he said that you two
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  Speaker 2: might be able to help me locate my property. Could you?
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  Speaker 2: It means a good deal, you know. I can imagine. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: we might be able to do business if you want
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  Speaker 2: it back bad enough. Sure. Sure, sit down, Roger. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have a nice long time. Well, that's very kind
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  Speaker 2: of you. However, some friends of mine drove me over
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  Speaker 2: from my apartment. And Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Cranston and Miss Lane, they are waiting downstairs in their car.
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  Speaker 8: Perhaps I could invite them up?
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  Speaker 2: Don't invite nobody up. Now, uh... What's it worth to
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  Speaker 2: you to get that crown back? Oh, a great deal,
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  Speaker 2: a very great deal. Not only the material loss, there's
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  Speaker 2: also the matter of principle. What do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 8: I mean that if I can catch the thieves, I
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  Speaker 8: shall prosecute to the extreme letter of the law.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah? Too bad you said that, Roger. Why? Because
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  Speaker 2: you're talking to him right now. What? Pull up the gun, Max. Gentlemen, please.
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  Speaker 2: Pack our stuff, Hoffman. We'll get down by the fire
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  Speaker 2: escape and head for the beach hideaway. Max, Max, wait.
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  Speaker 2: This is number two. You heard me. What are you
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  Speaker 2: going to do? Guess.
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  Speaker 9: How long have we been waiting here, Margo?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, not long, Lamont. Less than 20 minutes. Patience, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is a great virtue for a young man to learn.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not impatient. No? I'm getting worried, that's all. Why?
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  Speaker 2: Something may have happened. Like what, for instance? I beg
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  Speaker 2: your pardon. I'm the manager of this hotel.
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  Speaker 4: Were you with the gentleman who went up to suite 1109?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we brought him over. We're his weekend guests. Why?
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  Speaker 2: We just found him on the floor of the bedroom.
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  Speaker 2: Shot to death. No! Like that, for instance. Come on, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. You try that number again, operator. It's Louis
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  Speaker 2: Rocher's residence. I've been ringing for ten minutes, sir. We
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  Speaker 2: know Mrs. Rocher is there. This is an emergency. I'm sorry, sir.
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  Speaker 2: The number does not answer. Where in the world could
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  Speaker 2: she be, my dear? I don't know. She went up
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  Speaker 2: to bed just before Louis received that mysterious phone call.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember? Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see how she could sleep through all that ringing.
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  Speaker 2: It's a strange night altogether. What are you doing, Lamont?
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  Speaker 4: Number, please.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Hartfield 90990.
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  Speaker 4: I'm calling Fairchild, Rocher's partner. He's the next best person
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  Speaker 4: to notify. See any sign of it around?
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  Speaker 2: Of what? The thing with all the shootings about. The
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  Speaker 2: Crown of Odell. As far as I can make out,
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  Speaker 2: the room's empty. Hello? The Fairchild? Yes, Cranston? I'm calling
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  Speaker 2: you from the Old Stone Hotel. Did Roger see Hoffman, Max?
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid so. No luck? Hardly. They killed him. What?
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  Speaker 4: He's here on the floor at my feet. The medical
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  Speaker 4: examiner hasn't arrived yet, but it doesn't take an expert
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  Speaker 4: to tell he's dead.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then they're thieves and killers. Yes, all too obviously.
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  Speaker 2: This is horrible, Cranston. Particularly for poor Roger. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure he's the only victim. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 4: I've been trying to get Professor Drumgold on the wire
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  Speaker 4: for the last three quarters of an hour.
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  Speaker 2: No answer? None. Of course, he may have stepped out. No,
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  Speaker 2: not Drumgold. I know him. He never leaves his house
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  Speaker 2: after dark. Well, then all I can say is that
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  Speaker 2: Max and Hoffman... Yes, I know. Don't waste time putting
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  Speaker 2: it into words. Margo and I will hop over to
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  Speaker 2: his place right away. Preston. Yes? We'll have to do
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  Speaker 2: something about her first.
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  Speaker 4: Her?
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  Speaker 2: Who? Hilsa. Mrs. Roche. Where is she? She called me
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  Speaker 2: a little while before you rang up. Yes? She told
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  Speaker 2: me a strange story. Seems she woke up and saw
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  Speaker 2: an ancient white-haired man standing at the foot of her bed. Nightmare? No,
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. The old gentleman gave her some
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  Speaker 2: very practical information. What's that, Jess? An address on High
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  Speaker 2: Beach Road. Yes? Where he said she'd find the Crown Vodafone. And?
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  Speaker 2: I tried to get her to wait. I promised to
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  Speaker 2: join her at once. You mean she went there alone?
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  Speaker 2: That was her plan. Well, couldn't you have prevented that? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I tried. I pleaded. But Dilsa's a headstrong woman. She's
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  Speaker 2: not afraid of anything that walks. What was the address?
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  Speaker 2: 16 High Beach Road. 16 High Beach Road. I was
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  Speaker 2: trying to contact you before.
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  Speaker 6: I went after her.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Perch.
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  Speaker 2: This is no time for talk. I'll call back later. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's go, Margo.
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  Speaker 6: Where?
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  Speaker 2: Number 16, High Beach Road.
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  Speaker 4: Where, I think, we'll have the social distinction of meeting
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  Speaker 4: the Messieurs Faulkner and Max Incorporated.
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  Speaker 3: Popnick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Get downstairs, try that phone again.
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  Speaker 4: If you can't get reservation on the next flight for Cuba, Mexico, well,
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  Speaker 4: any place that's far enough away.
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  Speaker 6: Hey.
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  Speaker 2: It's a car. Yeah. Stopped in front. Yeah. Somebody got out. Hey, look,
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  Speaker 2: will you?
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  Speaker 4: It's a dame.
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  Speaker 2: She wants in. Yeah. What do we do? Well, you
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  Speaker 2: go down like a little gentleman and you let her in. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: but I... Go on, go on, go on, go on.
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a mistake. Maybe she just got the wrong house.
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  Speaker 5: Is this number 16, High Beach Road?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: You looking for number 16? I am. How'd you get
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  Speaker 2: the address?
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  Speaker 5: Most peculiarly, I was asleep not half an hour ago,
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  Speaker 5: and I woke up to see an old man in
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  Speaker 5: the shadows of my room.
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  Speaker 2: A very old man. White hair, lean, but very erect. Eagle. Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Like a king. Oh.
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  Speaker 5: He told me to come here.
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  Speaker 2: Then turned and walked away and practically seemed to vanish.
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  Speaker 2: Why did he say for you to come here, ma'am?
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  Speaker 2: To find the crown of Odal. Oh. Interesting the way
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  Speaker 2: you say, oh. It was? Yes. But you're going to
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  Speaker 2: say quite a few interesting things to me.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because if you don't, you'll have a very short life.
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  Speaker 2: Put down the gun. Put it down, yeah? Not on
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  Speaker 2: your life.
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  Speaker 5: I bought the crown on a legitimate market together with
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  Speaker 5: my husband, Louis Roger, and his partner, Fairchild.
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  Speaker 2: I don't intend to take this, though. Go easy, go easy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to count three.
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  Speaker 5: Before I finish, you're going to have told me where
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  Speaker 5: the crown is. And if you don't tell me, I
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: promise you that will be the very last thing that
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: you ever hear.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 5: One, two... Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Roger... Mrs. Rush. She... She's dead. Max. She's dead, too.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want? Just stand there and let her
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  Speaker 2: plug you? It's too much. Too much blood. Too much.
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  Speaker 2: Too much. I can't take this, Max. It ain't for me.
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  Speaker 2: Tighten up. Tighten up.
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  Speaker 6: You're gone.
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  Speaker 2: I can't. I can't. We're in this up to the waist.
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  Speaker 2: All we have is murder and murder and more murder.
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  Speaker 2: It's like we're cursed. We cut that diamond-studded thing. It's
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: we're cursed. What's the matter? Are you afraid of the cops? No, no.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Ain't that it, Dad? So? I got a feeling we're...
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: We're dealing with something here. Worse than cops. Why?
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Max.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. We'll return to the
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  Speaker 2: shadow in just a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Hilsa Roger had come to the house on High Beach Road,
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  Speaker 4: seeking the crown of Odell and finding death. A few
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  Speaker 4: moments later, Lamont and Margot drew up in front of
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  Speaker 4: the darkened hideaway.
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  Speaker 9: Here you are, Margot.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Come on. It looks frightening down here on the edge
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: of the sea. In midsummer, it's probably delightful. What do
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: you say we come back in midsummer? Come along, Miss Lane. Hello? Hello,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: anybody here? Somebody left the door unlocked. It's quickly by mistake,
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid. Wait, I'll find the light. There we are now.
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  Speaker 2: Don't look. Where? There, the front of the stairs. The
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: lady's purse. It's Ilsa Roger's. Pick it up, Margo. Margo,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: why don't you pick it up? It's got blood on it. Oh, Margo.
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  Speaker 4: Ilsa!
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  Speaker 1: Where is she?
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  Speaker 4: Ilsa!
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  Speaker 2: Ilsa! We won't find her. I know it. I know it.
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  Speaker 2: Easy now, Margo. Well, at least we found this.
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: What?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Telephone. Who are you calling? Local police. Might as well
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: make arrangements for getting out of this alive ourselves. Station,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I have 10th Precinct. This is the sergeant speaking. I'm
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: reporting a case of wholesale murder. What's that?
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I'm completely sure of two homicides and reasonably sure of
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: the third. And in my opinion, you can't get here
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  Speaker 4: too soon.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, where are you? A house on High Beach Road.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: What's the address? It's, uh, number 16. Lamar, shut up! Lamar! Lamar!
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Cut the screeching, lady! Cut it out! Lamar! Hey, what
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: goes on here?
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: I come down here to Phoney Airport again.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Here's a guy pulling a police station. Hey, what's this?
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Did he get the car through? Did he? Did he? Please!
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Has to be later.
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: Did he get that car through?
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Is he lying?
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: No, I heard him say hi, Bistro, just before I
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: let fly with a chair.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Then why didn't you let fly sooner? Because I'm cracking up.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: That's why I'm conking out with this whole thing. Let's
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: get out of here, Mac. Blow out her. There's no
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: reservations anywhere. The trains are full. The planes are all packed.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: We'll take this guy's car, the one I drove up in.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: It'll be red hot in two hours. When it gets
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: too hot, we'll bid you steal another one. One way
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: or another, we'll get to the border. Yeah, get to
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: the border. Sounds like a good deal. You got the crown?
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: It's right here. Top of the sideboard. Ah. Grab them
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: suitcases by the door. Okay. Come on, lady. What? I
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: said come on. You're going to spend a few years
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: in Mexico. No. No, look. Lady, be wise. Stay healthy.
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: The only way we could leave you here would be dead.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Come on, you.
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: Let me go.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Lamar. Have her other arm. Lamar. Good evening, gentlemen. Mr.
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: Thatcher.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Thatcher. The name may mean little to you, but the
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: gun in my hand, I'm sure it speaks for itself. What?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: What do you want? The crown of Odell. And what's more,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I'll have it. Now. Without stories and no delays. Look,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: wise guy. Max. Yeah? Give it to him. What do
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: you mean, give it to him? It's worth a couple
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: hundred grand. It'll be of little use to you dead,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: and that's where you both will be forever. don't deliver
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: on quick. We get enough trouble, Max? Unload. Unload. Uh,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: what about us, fair child? What do you mean? If
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: we do do business with you, will you let us
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: make the break for it? With my best wishes. Mr. Fairchild.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Miss Lane. I have no choice. I'm lucky
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: to hold the upper hand for a moment with these
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: two professionals. It's a deal, then. A deal. Here, take
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: your jewel-studded headache and let us out of here. Come on.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Come on, Hockney. Come on, Fairchild. Sorry to have met you.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: The feeling, I assure you, is mutual. Oh, Mr. Fairchild.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Where's Francis? There on the floor. What happened? They hurt him.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: They hit him with a chair. Francis. Francis. Is it serious? Yes.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I can't say how serious, but he's most distinctly unconscious.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: The best we can do is to... Listen. Do you
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: hear that? Yes. Do you think they're coming back? It's
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: possible they reconsidered. But they're going to walk straight into
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: trouble if they have. Be careful. Hoffman. Max. I can't
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: see you, but I hear you. First one to show
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: his face is going to get.
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: No, no, no.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Where is.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: He? Where am I? In the attic, my dear, of
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: number 16, High Beach Road. You fainted, you see. Who
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: are you? We have met before socially, Miss Lane, several times,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I mean it.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Professor Drongo.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Exactly, Miss Lane. I'm very flattered that you remember me.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I'm awfully glad to see you, Professor. I've had a
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: dreadful time. I understand, my dear. I have had rather
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: an exciting night myself. You have? Oh, remember now. We
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: thought you were dead.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: I'm very glad to announce that my death was a
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: mere matter of mechanical illusion.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Mechanical illusion? I allowed the Messrs. Hoffner and Max to
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: deprive me of my revolver and kill me with it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: But not, however, without first being careful to see to
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: it that the cartridges were blanks.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: You did that, Professor? Why? It was part of my plan.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: My most excellent plan.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: Which started this evening when I called Max and Hoffner
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: and told them the whereabouts of the Crown of Baudelaire.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Wonderfully clever. Don't you agree? I don't know whether I
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: do or not. If you hadn't told them, then they
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: never could have stolen it in the first place. But
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I wanted them to steal it, Miss Lane. But it
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: led to all the murders, Professor Drumgold. And I wanted
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: all the murders. I don't understand.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: I wanted the crown of Odalt, Miss Lane. Aye, all
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: for myself. And I was resolved to get it. I
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: arranged it so that Max and Hoffner could see it...
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: hoping and knowing that they would then have to kill
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: each of the real owners... to protect their ill-gotten gain.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: I helped keep the murders on schedule... by use of
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: a few mysterious phone calls. And I must say I
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: was lost in admiration at the success of my strategy.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: No!
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, but yes, Miss Lane. Of course, the ending had
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: been planned differently... I had hoped.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: That Max and Hoffner would keep their courage up long
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: enough to kill their child.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Too, as well as Roger and his wife.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: But they let me down, and I was forced to
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: dirty my own hands with their child's blood.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, no! But things worked out quite well. The three original.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Owners are dead, the thieves have fled, and I have
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: the crown of Odal.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: And now, Miss Lane... One bit of unfinished business. Don't!
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Don't touch me!
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: I will leave no stone unturned to assure my victory,
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: to secure myself in possession of the crown of... What
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: was that?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Who is it? Who is in this room? Someone laughed.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: It was I, Drumgold. Who are you?
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: The Shadow.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Shadow? I'm here in this room, though you cannot see me.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: What do you want, Shadow? Justice.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Retribution for your clever, heartless murder.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I did not intend to kill. I had planned to
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: keep my hands clean. Of course.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: They were using poor, stupid Hoffner and Max for your
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: criminal marionettes while you worked the strings in safety.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Well, Professor, they are already in the hands of the
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: police and they'll.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Pay a heavy penalty.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: No.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: And your penalty should be all the heavier.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: No.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: You, the mastermind who connived and planned to arrange the
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: deaths of the victims, to make appointment after appointment for murder.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Who is that? Your opposition, Drumgold. The male fist of
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: the law. The police?
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: They can have me, Chateau, but they will never get
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: my treasure.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: Chateau, he's got the problem.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Put it down, Drumgold. It returns to the sea from
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: which it came. Did you say Drumgold threw the crown
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: out the window, Mr.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Cranston?
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, that one, just up there. Just before your men
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: broke in, Lieutenant. He must have given it a terrific heave.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: We can't find it anywhere. It should be right here
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: on the beach, under the window. Perhaps the tide carried
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: it out. It doesn't seem likely.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: We'll start dragging the shore for it as soon as
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: it's light.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Good idea. Well, good night, sir. Good night. Good night, Mr. Cranston.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Good night. Mont. Yes, Margo. I don't think it's possible
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: that he threw it out to save you. Frankly, no.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Then where is it? It's... It's almost as if somebody
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: steered it away.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: What was that?
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Came from over the water. You know what it sounded like?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Far gone. Harder. Freighter whistle. Not a bit eerie and majestic, like... Like?
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Trumpets of an ancient Viking king putting out to sea.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: You know what I think, Margo? What? I think we
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: both need a really good night's sleep.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Glory is copyrighted by Smith & Smith Publications Incorporated. All
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: names and places are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: or dead is purely coincidental. Listen again next week, same time,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: same station, when the Shadow will again demonstrate that.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: The Shadow knows.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Next week, same time, same station, we bring you another
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: strange and thrilling adventure in the Shadow's daring battle.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Against the forces of evil. The part of Lamont Cranston
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: was played by Brett Morrison, Margo by Grace Matthews. This
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: program came to you from New York. Stay tuned now
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: for Quick as a Flash.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: This is Victor Sterling. Until next time, good night.
• 27:17
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